Monument record GSE 074 - Roman/Saxon buried soil and prehistoric features, 1 Pinbush Road

Initially miss-numbered GSE 088. An evaluation by trial trenching was carried out on the site of a proposed workshop/office building. Two trenches (total area 100m2) were excavated, representing 4.5% of the total area of the development site. The natural stratum was yellowish brown sand with pebbles and some localised patches of clay/silt. A prehistoric buried soil horizon directly overlay the natural sand. It contained small amounts of abraded later prehistoric pottery (including flint-tempered Iron Age fabrics) and later prehistoric struck flints. The surface of the buried soil horizon was at depths of 0.56m-0.90m below current ground level. In Trench 1 the buried soil horizon was cut by a ditch of probable prehistoric date and an undated but presumed prehistoric posthole. These features were sealed by a subsoil layer that contained Roman and Middle Saxon pottery, a post-medieval topsoil/ploughsoil and a modern turf layer (S1).

Possibly Roman cropmarks formerly recorded under this number can be found under GSE 087.